2019-06-24
- In 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019) highlights Lebrón’s vanguard act to underscore the relationship between Puerto Rican...
2019-05-15 - In April Professor Sandra Ruiz was awarded both the LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by tenure-based faculty and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Both awards are given to faculty who demonstrate sustained excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Ruiz was the only junior...
2019-05-14 - On April 18, 2019 several Latina/Latino Studies students presented their research at the Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium during the twelfth annual Undergraduate Research Week (April 14-20). The week is a celebration of student innovation and excellence in research across campus. Latina/Latino Studies major Bianca...
2019-03-27 - Over the last few years, Jonathan X. Inda has been working on a project that seeks to develop new ways to document, understand, and respond to the critical issue of state violence against two key racialized groups—Indigenous peoples and migrants/refugees—in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. The project is...
2019-03-19 - On March 13th our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yuridia Ramirez was the winner of one of two Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s Emerging Scholars awards for her presentation at the 2019 Illinois Distinguished and Chancellor’s Emerging Scholars Symposium. The Symposium was an opportunity for the postdoctoral fellows in The Chancellor...- 2019-03-18 - The University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2018 and Winter 2018/2019 has recently been announced and we have many LLS faculty, affiliates, and teaching assistants who made it onto the list. Making it onto the list is determined by the scores instructors receive on their ICES evaluations by students....
2018-12-03 - Natalie Lira was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for the project, Demographic Patterns of Eugenic Sterilization in Three U.S. States: Mixed Methods Investigation of Reproductive Control of the "Unfit." This NIH R01 grant funds an interdisciplinary project that combines quantitative epidemiological...
2018-11-28 - Gilberto Rosas was named Associate in the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) for the academic year 2019-2020. As a CAS awardee, he will complete Witness: Testimony and the Ends of Refuge, a book that addresses the competing ends of refuge as it plays out in the complexities of immigration and asylum proceedings and the often...
2018-10-16 - In an article for PBS American Experience Professor Natalie Lira discusses her research on the impact eugenics had on the sterilization of Mexican American women in California during the early decades of the 20th century. Lira begins the article by focusing on the case in 1930 of Concepcion Ruiz, a 16-year-old Mexican-American girl...
2018-09-14 - Queer and Latinx artist Erica Gressman premiered Limbs at the Krannert Art Museum on September 13th. Limbs was curated by Latina/Latino Studies Professor Sandra Ruiz with Krannert Museum's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy L. Powell. The performance...
2018-09-13 - La Estación Gallery opened in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies on September 12th with the exhibition “Limbs, Ligaments, Parts: My Body is There” by performance artist Erica Gressman. The exhibition, curated by Professor Sandra Ruiz with the support of...
2018-08-27 - The Department of LLS was busy this summer creating a performance/art gallery on the first floor of our building. Please join us in revealing La Estación Gallery to the public on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, between 5:30-7:30pm. Our first exhibition will showcase the performance artist Erica Gressman in Limbs, Ligaments, Parts: My Body is There. In this solo...
2018-08-09 - Latinos are still a rarity on American television, especially in proportion to their population. That makes the study of Latino characters and how they’re represented even more important, says Isabel Molina-Guzman, a professor of media and cinema studies and of Latina/Latino studies. She focuses on the funny ones in her new book “...
2018-07-13 - A professor of Latina/Latino studies, Dowling will be one of two presenters at the afternoon briefing. The event, sponsored by the Population Association of America, will be held in the Rayburn House Office Building.
2018-04-12 - Formed in 2012 to support promising LAS students with financial need, the Lincoln Scholars Initiative had its first graduates during the 2015-2016 academic year, when eight Lincoln Scholars graduated. Last year, 12 graduated. This year’s graduates are departing with exciting dreams in a variety of fields.